On Wednesday 23 October 2002 03:10, Joseph Sirucka wrote: >Hi All > >I would like to know where and what do I insert into the > amanda.conf for allow tape compression to work. > >the tape unit is a hp1537A in a six stacker based unit. > >regards > >Joseph
That part is already in the amanda.conf file Joseph. The choice that controls when amanda will use it is made in the file "disklist" by your choice of which of the backup profiles contained in amanda.conf it is to use for each entry. This next is something you may not have considered. Generally speaking, its not a good idea to mix the use of compression by amanda with the use of hardware compression in the drive. And since amanda's compression can usually shrink things better than the drives hardware can, albeit at the expense of time to do the compression in software, most prefer to turn off the drives compression and use amanda choices exclusively if their machine has the horsepower. That drive probably has the ability to turn the compression back on even if the dip switches on it are set to disable it. It does this by reading a hidden header on the tape everytime a different tape is inserted, and if the tape was ever recorded with the compression turned on, then its very difficult to turn it off when reusing that tape again. Amanda by herself cannot do it, although it would be a nice feature to have. (hint hint) I've related a method that I've used many times several times previously on this list, so if thats a problem for you, look back thru the archives & see if you can find it. If not, give us another yelp for help. :-) -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.18% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
